AMERICAN POLICY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19760, 10 April 1926, Page 11

AMERICAN POLICY

THE LEAGUE AND THE WORLD COURT. SPEECH BY PRESIDENT COOLIDGE. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) WASHINGTON, April 8. (Received April 9, at 9 p.m.) With President Coolidge as the principal speaker, the first pan-American Congress of Journalists embarked on Thursday upon the study of various problems confronting the press. Twenty-one republics are represented with a view to working for a better understanding among their nations. In laying the cornerstone of a home to be erected here for the National Pi ess Club, the President referred to the country’s press as '‘One of the cornerstones of liberty.” Discussing the League of Nations, President Coolidge said that the United States refused to adhere to the organisation because it wished to refrain from interfering in the political affairs of others. ‘‘We do not wish to become involved in the political controversies of other countries,” he said, ‘‘because they are none of our affairs.” Referring to the recent adherence with reservations of the United States to the World Court, President Coolidge said : “Our Government has taken this step because it believes that it was the most practical method by which it could exercise its great influence in establishing the principle of international law, under which disputes and differences may be adjudged not by force but by reason.”—Reuter,